The Mass Production Line
Workshop day 3
Printing isn’t as easy as it seems to be… This is roughly what happened:
11:00 - meeting at Chatham
11:15 - splitting into groups: Katie & Rachel - drilling, Trexy & I - printing
11:30 - sending a file to the printer
11:32 - finding out that the printer is out of order
11:35 - 11:45 - walking to John Dalton building
12:00 - sending the file to the printer, confirming the action
12:01 - finding out that there’s a 5 hour waiting time until the print comes out
12:10 - 12:20 - deciding to pick the print up the next day, going back to Chatham
12:30 - finding out that the printer is working (‘shit:///’)
Workshop day 2
We met again today with all the images stuck onto polypro squares. We could move to part two then: drilling. Particularly over the last two days we were really glad to have 3D Katie in our group - she’s really familiar with all the equipment in the metal workshop, where we did all the jobs for creating our installation. We usually use only the wood workshop so, in spite of having an introduction to all of these crazy machines, it was good to practice using them again with her help.
And then Rachel appeared… For some reason all of her images got really strange colours and so they were basically useless… A weird thing because we all used the same glue (UHU) and everything was fine, there were maybe a few of our photos which lost a bit of colour, but we could probably get away with it.
We looked through them and made a list of faulty images - there were so many of them that it looks like we have to print them all off again!
Creating the mosaic
I downloaded some new software which is waaaaaay better than the one I had used before. There’s a variety of settings which enable you to adjust the size, amount of images, duplicates, colours etc. It also deepens the obsession of creating ‘the perfect image’…
20/22 Exhibition and the Northern Quarter Intervension
I feel like I got a bit confusing… so, again: WHERE, WHAT and HOW???
1) 20/22
- a mosaic image printed onto fabric
- roughly 1,5m high and 2m wide
- creating a 3D illusion using Anaglyph 3D glasses
2) Fred Aldous window
- a patchwork mosaic 2D installation
- materials: polypropylene sheets (collected from Fred Aldous), a wire, printed image (cut into single photos)
Patchwork - combined ideas
Seems like we are back at the point where our initial idea came from - patchwork. We still want to use software to generate the final image, but instead of constructing a three - dimensional object (which probably would be really tricky to make), we want to create a patchwork installation, made out of images we collected from people (by stalking, nagging and stealing - all with their permission though).
We think this will be much more straightforward but at the same time much more effective. We can also set up a little “mass production line” which would make our lives easier - every worker would be on her own position and be responsible for a particular job. For higher efficiency we can also work at home, then transport the pieces to 20/22 and assemble them together.
Design drawings
As we changed our idea a bit, as well as the place where we’re going to display our work (Fred Aldous instead of American Graffiti), I did this drawing for the new proposal for Fred Aldous. We’re still thinking of printing the image on fabric, still waiting for a sample though - we’re not sure if a 3D image (red/blue) will work printed on something other than paper.
Further development
We were wondering if our 3D images work at all, so I made these glasses out of photo filters I used for photographing a model for my previous project.
So, the trick is: you basically have to stare at the image for about 10-20 seconds and get your eyes out of focus, try to look at what’s ‘beyond’. The problem is, not everybody (for some reason) is able to do it… for some people then our project will be just… rubbish.
I did some experiments because I was wondering what would happen if we use two images - one completely flat and the other one cut into pieces, which would hang in the air. Unfortunalety this won’t work either - to see the effect eyes need to focus on something that’s flat, otherwise they just ‘jump’ from one object onto another.
That’s why we decided to create 2 pieces - one giving an illusion of 3D (in 2022) and the other one - a real three - dimensional installation (Fred Aldous).
New Order Brixton, Academy, 03.05.2012.
via youtube.com
It was great to see them live!
2 weeks ago - 
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1 Samples
I made this sample out of four layers and cut some pieces out of them, so every layer complements the next one. I also used strips of card to add thickness. Looks quite good, definitely more interesting than just a flat image.
[[posterous-content:pid___0]]It might be a bit tricky though - the light casts shadows so the image is not always legible. On the other hand we could take advantage of that and manipulate the light to get some weird looking effects.
Yoskay Yamamoto
Another example of how we could push our idea further and transfer the image into a three-dimensional structure.
“…one of the last true stories in pop…”
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“Joy Division” The Documentary
A great film! If anybody’s interested here’s the full length film:
3D?
I was thinking of how we could make our installation more 3D rather than just a printed image…
Lucas Simões:
In this series of works I invited intimate friends over to tell me a secret as I took their portrait. However, my intention was not to hear their secret, but to capture the expressions of each one at the moment they revealed their secret. I also asked each one to choose a song for me to listen to in my ear phones while I photographed them. And, after the photo session, I asked each one if the secret had a color, and these are the colors the portraits carry. From this photo shooting session I chose 10 different portraits to cut and overlap.
Source: http://www.lucassimoes.com.br/desretratos
Annette Messager:
Chris Dorosz:
canadian artist chris dorosz creates intricate sculptures using a grid of acrylic rods which he covers in tiny paint drops to create 3-d images. now based in san francisco, dorosz started the paint drop body of work when thinking about the primacy of the paint drop. he explains, ‘the paint drop, a form that takes shape not from a brush or any human-made implement or gesture, but purely from its own viscosity and the air it falls
through’. using the paint drop as a building block, dorosz explores ‘changing ideas of human physicality in an age pushing towards virtual reality’ through his art. most of the pieces are rather small sculptures exhibited on the wall, but the artist has also created larger installation works that are full size objects, like pieces of furniture.
source: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/7372/chris-dorosz-paint-drop-sculptures.html
